Hat-pin shield.



J. LEU.

HAT PIN SHIELD.

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 4, 1910.

999 171 Patented July 25,1911.

- Jakn Lea COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPM 00., WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNTTE STATES JOHN LEU, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

HAT-PIN SHIELD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 25, 1911 Applicationfiled June 4, 1910.

Serial No. 565,089.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN LEU, a citizen of the United States, residingat Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in HatPin Shields, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to guards or protectors for womens hat pins, andthe object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwhich is extremely simple in construction, which can be manufactured ata low cost, which cannot he accidentally removed from the pin and Whichis ornamental in appearance.

\Vith the above, and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription progresses, the invention resides in the novel constructionand combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a guardconstructed in accordance with the present invention, and slmwing thesame in applied position. Fig. 2 is an enlarged central lon gitudinalsectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken uponthe line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. d is a view of the blank from which thedevice is constructed.

As is well known, pins for women s hats, as now constructed, frequentlyproject a dis tance beyond the hat, and thus become a menace when thehat is worn upon a crowded thoroughfare. The pin is also dangerous whenthe hat is not on the head of the wearer, as for instance, in theaters,dressing rooms, etc.

In order to overcome the above objections I have constructed a hat pinguard or protector designated by the numeral 1. This protector 1 may beconstructed of a single piece of resilient metal and comprises asubstantially bell-shaped mouth portion 2 from which project in oppositedirections the arms 3 and 4. The portions of the arms directly connectedwith the bellshaped mouth 2 diverge toward each other and are con tinuedin a parallel line with each other a distance and from thence bentupwardly and outwardly in opposite directions. One of the upwardlyprojecting portions of the arm 3 may be bent upon itself to form therear wall 5. The extension of the rear 5 may be connected with theextension of the arm 3 through the medium of a rivet 6 or otheranalogous device. The end portion 5 of the device is preferablycentrally provided with a soft yieldable stop member 7, the same beingconstructed preferably of rubber.

By reference to the several figures of the drawings it will be notedthat the bell shaped mouth 2 of the member is provided with a reducedentrance opening 8, the same being positioned directly between the arms3 and 4E, and it will be noted that when a pin is inserted through thesaid opening the same will be tightly grasped by the resilient arms andthat injury to the point of the pin will be effectively prevented by therub ber member 8.

Each of the arms 3 and 4 have one of their edges cut away longitudinallyas at 9 and their opposite edges provided with lon gitudinally extendinglips or offsets 10 which are adapted to engage within the cut awayportions 9 of the arms. By this arrangement it will be understood thatthe re silient arms 3 and 4 are at all times retained in properalinement with each other, and both of the arms 3 and I are centrallyprovided with a longitudinally extending depression 11 positioned upontheir inner faces and arranged in alinement with the central opening ofthe bell-shaped front or mouth 2. The walls provided by thesedepressions may, if desired, be serrated so that the pin will be moresecurely retained between the compressible arms. The said depressions,it will be apparent, also serve as guideways whereby the pin may bereadily inserted so as to contact with the yieldable stop member 7.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it will be noted that I have provided an extremely simple andthoroughly effective device for the purpose intended, and while I haveillustrated and described the preferred embodiment of the improvement,as it now appears to me, changes in the minor details of construction,within the scope of the following claims may be resorted to if desired.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new is Theherein described construction of protectors for hat pins, comprising amember formed from a single piece of resilient material, said membercomprising a back which is bent at an angle to provide a centrallyarranged forwardly cxtending arm, the said arm having one of itslongitudinal edges cut away, the opposite edge of the arm being bent toprovide a lip, the said arm forward of the lip and cut away portionbeing bent downwardly and inwardly to provide a bell shaped mouth, thesaid mouth being provided with an opening registering with the top wallof the arm the end of the metal forming the mouth being bent downwardlyand continued in a plane parallel with and resiliently engaging the armto provide a second arm, the meeting faces of both of the arms beingformed with longitudinal depressions, the second arm having one of itsedges bent to provide a lip adapted to engage within the cut awayportion of the first arm, the opposite edge of the second arm being cutaway to receive the lip of the first arm, and the extremity of thesecond arm being bent and connected to the back member diametricallyopposite the junction of the said back member and the first mentionedarm.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LEU. Witnesses J. P. TRIPANIER, E. S. PRIMEAU.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C.

